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GENOCIDE, TERRORISM, AND WAR CRIMES

FORTHCOMING
The Holocaust

An Encyclopedia and Document Collection

4 VOLUMES | PAUL R. BARTROP AND MICHAEL DICKERMAN, EDITORS

The Holocaust that occurred during World War II remains one of the deadliest
genocides in human history, with an estimated two-thirds of the 9 million
Jews in Europe at the time being killed as a result of the policies of Adolf Hitler
and Nazi Germany. The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection
provides students with an all-encompassing resource for learning about this
tragic event—a four-book collection that provides detailed information as well
ABC-CLIO as multidisciplinary perspectives that will serve as a gateway to meaningful
September 2017, 1,890pp, 8 1/2x11
Print: 978-1-4408-4083-8 discussion and further research.
$435.00, £335.00, €396.00 The first two volumes present reference entries on significant individuals of
eBook: 978-1-4408-4084-5 the Holocaust (both victims and perpetrators), anti-Semitic ideology, and
annihilationist policies advocated by the Nazi regime, giving readers insight
into the social, political, cultural, military, and economic aspects of the
S AMPLE T OPICS
Holocaust while enabling them to better understand the Final Solution in
• Anielewicz, Mordecai
Europe during World War II and its lasting legacy. The third volume of the set
• Children during the presents memoirs and personal narratives that describe in their own words
Holocaust
the experiences of survivors and resistors who lived through the chaos and
• Freisler, Roland horror of the Final Solution. The last volume consists of primary documents,
• Hitler, Adolf including government decrees and military orders, propaganda in the form of
• Jewish Women and newspapers and pamphlets, war crime trial transcripts, and other items that
the Holocaust provide a direct look at the causes and consequences of the Holocaust under
• Nuremberg Laws the Nazi regime. By examining these primary sources, users can have a deeper
• Sharp, Waitstill, and understanding of the ideas and policies used by perpetrators to justify their
Martha actions in the annihilation of the Jews of Europe.
• Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup FEATURES
• Provides an easily readable encyclopedic collection of secondary source
materials, such as reference entries, maps, and tables, that offer a breadth
of content for understanding the Holocaust
• Examines a broad range of themes relating to the Holocaust, enabling
readers to consider important questions about the historical experience and
its implications for today

PAUL R. BARTROP, PhD, is professor of history
and director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust,
and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast
University, Fort Myers, FL.

MICHAEL DICKERMAN is adjunct professor
of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton
University, Galloway, NJ.

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